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  Program Dates
  
  January 15–March 8, 2024

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  Duration
  
   8 weeks

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  Time Commitment
  
  4-5 hours per week

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  Who Should Attend?
  
  Higher education professionals new to management or leading teams.

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  Program Delivery
  
  Online
  (Synchronous and Asynchronous)

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  Credential
  
  Successful completers receive the New Managers Institute digital microcredential.

About Attending This Program

All EDUCAUSE Institutes are built around the following core themes, which you'll learn more about in the program: diversity, equity, and inclusion, student success, and digital transformation. We believe in a humanized, learner-centered approach that supports communities of learning and networking.

This intensive, eight-week institute engages participants in interactive live sessions, offers small applied team projects designed to support networking and learning, and provides coaching with the faculty. We ask that participants actively plan the time they will spend on the institute each week, even on a daily basis. Each competency below is delivered with diverse learning materials, resources, activities, and capstone projects in support of in-depth learning, immediate application, and networking.

• Interpersonal Communication: Communicate professionally and successfully with all levels of the organization.
  • Includes support for adaptive communication, active listening, presentation skills, difficult conversations, and conflict management.
• Projects: Methods, Best Practices, and Stakeholders: Demonstrate effective oversight of projects and people.
  • Includes support for project basics, project methodologies, project stakeholders and teams, best practices for project success, team dynamics, and time management.
• Cost Management: Manage departmental costs to achieve organizational goals.
  • Includes support for budget basics, estimating, funding sources, budget management, and awareness of data.
• HR Performance and Motivation: Manage personnel to meet departmental performance goals and objectives.
  • Includes support for talent acquisition, motivating people, performance goals, performance management, and employee retention.
• Leadership Practices for New Managers: Apply leadership practices that utilize personal leadership traits and abilities.
  • Includes support for traits of effective leaders, essential leadership principles; different leadership styles for a growth mindset; ethical frameworks, and navigating organizational change.

Weekly Meetings

Once a week, we will hold a live, synchronous online meeting to discuss resources, activities, and projects. These meetings will be a combination of short talks, discussion, and opportunities for questions. See the full meeting schedule in the Agenda page.

View Agenda 

Learners are expected to dedicate approximately 4-5 hours per week (synchronous and asynchronous) to have an engaged and successful learning experience.

Coaching and Mentoring Opportunities

As part of your enrollment in this institute, you have the opportunity to receive coaching from the program's faculty.

All EDUCAUSE members can receive mentoring from an experienced leader from the higher education community, or be a mentor themselves, via EDUCAUSE’s Mentoring Program.